Respiratory organs
Dry tracheal cough, during the last hour (after one hour and a quarter).
Heart and Pulse
After doses (1/16 to 1/12 of a grain) sufficient to produce complete dryness of the tongue and the hard and soft palates, the pulse will generally experience an acceleration of 10 or 20 beats, and be increased slightly in force and volume; this change in the pulse will be observed in from ten to twenty minutes after the subcutaneous injection of Hyoscyamine; the acceleration does not usually continue for longer than twenty or thirty minutes, and rarely lasts for an hour; then the pulse slowly declines, and gains a little in force and volume; it usually decreases about 5 beats for every interval of twenty or thirty minutes, until at the end of an hour and a half or two hours it attains its minimum rate; after a small dose (1/40 of a grain) the pulse will usually fall without any previous acceleration. Pulse 76 (before the proving) accelerated 26 beats of undiminished volume and power (after thirty minutes); accelerated 24 beats (after forty minutes); accelerated 12 beats (after minutes); fallen to 9 beats below the initial rate, regular, and of undiminished power and volume (after one hour and a quarter); decreased 18 beats, regular, software, of good volume (after two hours and quarter); decreased 21 beats, being now 53, regular, and of natural volume power (after three hours). Pulse 78 (before proving); rose 18 beats during the first twenty minutes, and then during the next two hours gradually fell to 20 beats below the initial rate; during the first half hour the force and volume were slightly increased; afterwards the pulse assumed its natural character. Pulse 74 (before the proving); increased 18 beats, regular (after twenty minutes); accelerated 8 beats (after one hour); 5 beats (after one hour and a half); 72, reduced 2 beats, of the same volume and power as before the injection (after two hours); still 72, regular, and of good volume (after two hours and a half). Pulse 76 (before proving; in creased 15 beats, regular, a little increased in volume (after twenty minutes); increased 4 beats (after one hour); 20 beats below the initial rate, of natural volume and power (after two hours). Pulse 74 (before the proving); accelerated 15 beats (after twenty three minutes); accelerated 10 beats, regular (after three quarters of an hour); 74, of natural volume and power (after one hour); 72 (after two hours). Pulse increased 12 natural volume force (after forty five minutes); pulse fallen 1 beat, full and regular (after one hour); decreased 6 beats, but still remained of good volume and force (after two hours) pulse 60, very regular, and of natural force and volume; it had continued so from the second hour (after three hours and three quarters). Pulse 88, after sitting an hour ( in much pain), (before the proving) decreased 6 beats, once or twice a minute, a beat came very slowly, otherwise quite regular (after fifteen minutes) further decreased 2 beats, quite regular, slightly increased in volume and power (after thirty minutes ). fell 7 beats and attained the minimum depression of 19 beats (between forty fourth minute and forty sixth minute) pulse 72 having increased 3 beats it was regular, and of slightly increased volume and power (after two hours and after, when it attained the minimum, numbering 48; during the next hour it rose to 50. pulse 76 (before the proving de creased 18 beats (after twenty minutes: (21 beats (after three quarters of an hour); 22 beats (after one hour); 25 beats now numbering 51 (after one hour and three quarters) 26 beats (after two hours and a quarter); at first the force and volume of the pulse were slightly increased, but afterwards it continued unchanged and regular throughout. Increased, but afterwards it continued unchanged and regular throughout.
Extremities in General
Limbs were fidgety, and occasionally affected with slight twitching (after two hours). Slight jerking of the limbs.
Inferior Extremities
The legs were very weak and he could not walk without assistance (after twenty minutes). Legs felt too weak to walk (after one hour), He could not rise from his chair, or walk without assistance and as he sat, the extensors of the legs were slightly twitched now and then, so as to advanced the foot with a little jerk (after forty five minutes), Quite unable to walk (after two hours).
General Symptoms
The muscular system generally was flaccid, he did not sit erect in the chair, and a foot was occasionally advanced with a little jerk, and once or twice the hand was suddenly pronated and supinated with a jerk (after one hour). The power of maintaining the erect posture will be lost, and at best the patient reels like a drunken man. Somewhat restless for an hour and a quarter, and if I left his side for a minute he would attempt to get up, reel for a few paces, and then fall together like a drunken man, upon the carpet (after two hours). Felt heavy (after twenty minutes).
Sleep
Inclined to yawn (after one hour and three quarters). Frequently yawned and sighed (after one hour and a quarter). Gapish and tired (after three hours and a quarter) Slight inclination to sleep (after three hours and a quarter). Somnolency continuing about an hour (after ten to twenty minutes). Much somnolency, and had slept the last ten minutes (after one hour); had slept during the last hour, and still experienced somnolency (after two hours), Much somnolency (after fifteen minutes); continued very sleepy (after thirty minutes); she continued to sleep for an hour and awaking with a start, Great Somnolency for three hours. Great Somnolency (after twenty minutes); Continuing (after one hour and a half) nearly passed off (after two hours). Greater somnolency and giddiness than after grain of acetate of morphia (used subcutaneously); the effects came on within the eyelids raised for a few seconds. Either wakeful, quiet, and he slept two hours soundly and continuously. Such excessive somnolency that the patient cannot keep the eyelids raised for a few seconds. Either wakeful, quiet, and unusually pleasing delirium, with illusions of the sight, or such excessive somnolency that the patient cannot keep the eyelids raised for a few seconds, but when aroused, lapses again in to a dreamy sleep, broken by occasional mutterings and slight jerking of the limbs.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.